Tag / voter id
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Enough About the White Working Class
An emerging theme from the media’s analysis of the 2016 election is that the Democrats failed to connect with the white working class voters in the heartlands that voted in large droves for President Trump. That is, Hillary Clinton should have spent more time in the Rust Belt. There has been a borderline obsession with…
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The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Voter Fraud
The myth goes like this: scores of miscreant ineligible voters head to the polls every election – well, especially in 2008 – and, like a Chicago political machine, destroy the sanctity of our democracy with rampant, fiendish voter fraud. In order to preserve our honor, our very freedom, is it too much to ask that…
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Voter ID Laws: They’re Wrong, But Not For the Reasons You Might Think
The right to vote has been treated as a right that is fundamental, even sacred, by citizens and Supreme Court justices alike. So what explains the estimated 1 million minority citizens who are expected to be disenfranchised by voter ID laws this November? An even better question: why are these laws legal? Have we taken…
